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So I entered a couple of boxes in an art show just before Thanksgiving and there was a piece of sculpture there (not quite what Mrs. Lose called it) and I thought that it would make a great Christmas present for my wife. I cut a deal with the guy and paid him for it and took a picture of it to show my wife. I got home and showed her the pictures and she didn’t say anything and just raised her eyebrows and walked off. My daughter is here on a visit for my birthday and I told her about the sculpture and she wanted to see it this afternoon. So I took her out to my truck because I had it hidden in the back seat and knew my wife would never look there. My daughter took one look and started laughing hysterically and when she regained her composure enough she said “You’re not really going to give her that, are you?” Needless to say I was absolutely crushed by her reaction and told her that I’d paid a lot of money for it because I knew my wife would love “a piece of art” like that. My daughter assured me that her mother would absolutely not think much of that “piece of art”. So later on my wife was in the office and my daughter and I were in the living room and nearly every time she looked at me she would laugh. I asked her to go out to my truck and get “the piece of art” and bring it in and set it on the mantle to see if Mrs. Lose really liked it or not. She hated it. My daughter took a video of her reaction to it just for entertainment purposes in the future. So this splendid “piece of artwork” is going to end up as a white elephant gift or maybe I can pay the guy opening up the new pawn shop up the street to take it off of my hands. My daughter mentioned the Christmas Story connection, the leg lamp in the living room window,